Trousers-stretcher.



1 A. E. EASTLUND.

TROUSERS STRETGHER.

APPLIOATION FILED OUT. 13, 1908.

Patented June 27, 1911.

cc, WASHINGTON, n. c.

AXEL EMANUEL EASTLUND, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

TROUSERS-STRETCHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 27, 1911.

Application filed October 13, 1908. Serial No. 457,563.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AXEL EMANUEL EAST- LUND, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of Portland and county of Multnomah,State of Oregon, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement inTrousers-Stretchers, of which the following is a specification,reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, as constituting a partthereof.

This invention has for its object to obtain an inexpensive trousersstretcher, the parts of which are so arranged that the same may bequickly and conveniently applied for use;

and also so arranged that the same, when not in use, may be foldedtogether in as small a package as possible.

My invention also comprises the several features, and combination andarrangement of parts more fully described in the body of thisspecification, and illustrated in the drawings.

In the drawings: Figure 1 shows my de vice as applied in practice; Fig.2 is a detail of the two-part connecting bar, and the means provided forlengthening and shortening the same as required; Fig. 3 is a sectionaldetail of said lengthening and shortening means; Fig. 4 is a perspectivedetail of the lower end of the lower piece of the two-part connectingbar; and this figure furthermore, in particular, shows means forlimiting the angle of spreading of the arm pivoted to said lower piece;Fig.6 is a perspective detail of the clamps provided at the extremitiesof the members, by which clamps the upper and lower corners of thetrousers are secured, as illustrated in Fig. 1; Figs. 6 and 7 aredetails of modified means for limiting the spread of the member pivotedto the lower piece of the connecting bar; Figs. 8 and 9 show the twopieces of the connecting-bar separated from each other, and the partspivoted thereto folded, approximately parallel with the main pieces ofthe connecting-bar, so as to arrange the parts in as small a bulk aspossible.

Describing now the details of construction, and in so doing referring tothe reference letters in the several views: the connecting-bar, a, ismade of two pieces a, cf, the piece a being provided with a series ofperforations Z) and a cross bar '0 at its inner extremity, and the piecea being provided with a stud d. In arranging the parts, I have found itconvenient to lap the piece a over the piece a, keeping the stud (Z atthe end of the piece a free until the connectin bar has been adjusted toits proper length, and then interlocking the parts, as shown in Fig. 3;and finally the ring (2 is moved up, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, toprevent the separation of the pieces.

To the upper end of the piece a (viewing the same as shown in Fig. 1) ispivoted an angular member f, provided with a notch f (see Fig. 8)arranged to receive the shank of a clamping screw 9, and thus allowingthe connected parts, just referred to, to be arranged either as shown inFig. 1 or folded together, as shown in Fig. 8.

To the angular member f is pivoted an arm h. The extremities of themembers f and h are provided, respectively, with clamps 2', asillustrated in the detail Fig. 5. The clamp-extremities of said membersand h are made claw-shaped (see Fig. 5) and have a notch cut out,adapted to receive a stud j on the clamping plate 70, and the partsbeing adjustably held together by a clamping screw Z.

The lower end of the lower-piece c of the connecting-bar a, has hingedto it an angu lar bar m, adapted to be arranged in two positions, asillustrated in Figs. 1 and 9, for the same purpose as describedconcerning the arrangement of the hinged member f, and to the member mis pivoted an arm n. The member on is provided with a notch m (see Fig.9) and the member a with a clamping screw 9 to lock the parts in theposition shown in Fig. 1.

0, 0 represent the pivot-screws of the members f and m.

In order to limit the outward movement of the hinged member n, in thepractical ap plication of my device, some means operating as astop-element must be provided. I have shown two types of such means, oneof which consists in providing the member m with serrations p, withwhich to engage the outer end of a bar 9, pivoted to the member a. Inplace of the means last described, a simple clamping bar 1, shown inFig. 7, may be used, such bar being provided with a longitudinal slot 7"and with clamping screws .9, s, by which it is secured in place on themembers m 9?. (duplicates of the members m, n) as shown in Fig. 6. TheeX- tremities of the members m, n are provided with clamping means If,t, of the same construction as illustrated in the sectional de tail Fig.5, and like those provided on the members f, h.

To use my device, the trousers are in the first instance arrangedapproximately as shown by the outline a in Fig. 1; the legpieces beingarranged one over the other; and the corners a being secured in theclamps at the extremities of the members f, h, m, n, as shown in Fig. 1.This is done before the two pieces a, a of the connecting-bar, a, areconnected; thereupon the two members a, a are forced lengthwise apart toobtain the desired stretch, the stud at the inner extremity of themember a is then inserted in the registering perforation of the member othe parts brought parallel to each other, and the ring 6 moved up inplace. In adjusting the length of the connecting-bar, a, it isconvenient to lift the inner ends of the members a, a above thehorizontal, then insert the stud d of the member a in one of theperforations b of the member a then bring the two members of theconnecting bar down to the level, and finally slip the ring 6 in place,to lock the parts.

I claim:

1. A trousers stretcher comprising a twopiece bar, means at the innerends of the said bar-pieces to fasten the same end to end, main andcompanion clamping-members pivoted on the outer ends of each barpiece,clamping screws on the outer ends of the bar-pieces and correspondingnotcheson the inner ends of the main clamping-members, clamps at theextremities of the clamping-members in which to secure the top andbottom ends of the trousers, and means whereby to secure, in relativeposition, the companion clamping-member provided on the bar for holdingthe bottom end of the trousers. I

2. A trousers stretcher comprising a twopiece bar, one of the inner endsof the barpieces being provided with a series of perforations, and theinner end of the other having a stud, a ring on the bar-piece havingperforations, and a stop preventing the removal of the ring, main andcompanion clamping-members pivoted on the outer ends of each bar-piece,clamping screws on the outer ends of the bar-pieces and correspondingnotches on the inner ends of the main clamping-members, clamps at theextremities of the clamping-members in which to secure the top andbottom ends of the trousers, and means whereby to secure, in relativeposition, the companion clampingmember provided on the bar for holdingthe bottom end of the trousers.

AXEL EMANUEL EASTLUND.

Witnesses:

S. H. HAINEs, T. J. GEISLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents. Washington, .D. C.

